| Ganza | |
| Nativename: | غانزا (Ganzo) |
| States: | Sudan, Ethiopia |
| Region: | Asosa Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Blue Nile State |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Fam2: | Omotic |
| Fam3: | North |
| Fam4: | Mao |
| Iso3: | gza |
| Glotto: | ganz1246 |
| Glottorefname: | Ganza |
Ganza, also known as Ganzo or Koma, is an Omotic language of the Afro-Asiatic family spoken in the Al Kurumik District of the Blue Nile (state) in Sudan and in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, specifically in the village districts of Penishuba and Yabeldigis.
It also goes by the names Ganzo, Gwami, Koma, and Koma-Ganza.
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| ejective | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| ejective | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Trill | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.[1]
| Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Although vowel length is typically contrastive in Omotic languages, Ganza does not have a clear contrast between long and short vowel phonemes. Instead, Ganza has predictable utterance-final vowellengthening and a set of monosyllabic words with double vowels.[1]